Mr. Henderson leaned back in his worn armchair, the afternoon sun warming his face. A feeling of contentment settled over him. Today’s mail had contained a sleek, leather-bound journal. He recognized the handwriting on the return address: Mark, one of his more… challenging students from years ago. Inside, Mark had written a heartfelt thank you, recounting how Mr. Henderson’s English class had sparked his love of literature. He re-read the letter, a quiet chuckle escaping his lips. He'd always believed in the power of stories.

Emotion: pleased

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.62 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion pleased. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 pleased stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the pleased emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the pleased vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.728
la0.496
happy0.462
🤩0.433
🥳0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401